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Howie Dickenman continued a family tradition of nearly four decades at his home on Christmas Eve. Only this time, the Central Connecticut basketball coach had another guest. "Every Christmas Eve for 38 years, since she was 3 weeks old, I have read 'The Night Before Christmas' to my daughter Erica," Dickenman said Friday. "She sits on my lap. Even in Hawaii, I took her with UConn [to the 1993 Big Island Invitational in Hilo]. I had Travis Knight take pictures. "I have pictures from every year." The 2014 photograph will show that his daughter wasn't alone in hearing a classic gravel-voiced Howie version of "On, Comet! On Cupid! On Donder and...

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